What a massive nut

Last night, Tyler decided to change our plans rapidly by waking up heaving, so Tracy managed to wretch open the door and push him out the van just in time to witness the entire day's food consumption come flying out a whole lot quicker than it went in. After about 20 minutes of him lying on the grass next to the van and Tracy was confident he wasn't going to Ralph anymore, he came back to bed but this time with a bucket nearby "just in case". I took this opportunity to get up out of bed and relieve some night time pressure of my own, and then we all managed to get through the rest of the night incident free. 

Tyler was very much not feeling well all day, and his ability to reproduce anything that made contact with his stomach wall made it easy for us to not feel guilty about not feeding him for the rest of the day. 

We packed up and headed back up the coast just west of Burnie at a place called Somerset. This was entirely because I had insisted I wanted to see the far NW corner of Tassie, regardless of anyone else's wishes. Turns out the caravan park was an old drive in and apparently hasn't had any maintenance since it closed 20 years ago, although I must admit the amenities were up to standard so the state of the park didn't really matter. 

I took Dylan And Kayla to a place called the Nut at Stanley, about 100km NW of Somerset, whilst Tracy stayed at the park and Tyler slept for the entire afternoon. 

We struck an awesome day weather wise and the town Stanley was amazing, especially from the top of this rocky outcrop. We caught the chairlift up which was pretty interesting, then walked around the top taking in the views, then Trekker down the path that was literally a concrete path at a 45 degree angle that tore any remaining muscles off your calves by the time you got to the bottom. 

This meant we had to reward ourselves with an ice cream and a paddle in the amazing ocean. I then set off on the hours drive back to see if Tyler had been taken to hospital or not, but thankfully he was very much feeling better and we had a full nights sleep. 

The next day, Rob and Nicole took off for a bit of bush camping inland at a place called Hellyer Gorge whilst I took Tracy and Tyler up the coast to visit various places that we had zoomed past the day before and saw some more incredible coastline. Turned out that we ended up at Stanley again so Tyler could experience the chairlift and the climb up the nut. 

On the way back we took a turn inland to find a waterfall at "Dip Falls". The sign said it was 28km in, and as I reached the 39km mark I began to question my incredible sense of direction. All of a sudden we found the last sign leading us to a waterfall that was really not even a match for my average night time visit to the toilet after a big night on the grog. Just around the corner however was a walk to "the big tree". This thing was enormous. 16m around the base (and like the other sign, I think that was 15-20% short), and 64m high. The whole surrounding forest area was full of other massive trees, and once again was a memorable place with lots of photos taken for a slide show we will probably never look at, but hopefully the kids will always remember.